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93 articles tagged "US-Israel"
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November 27, 2004, 12:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Italy's military electronics, aircraft and military industries are preparing to take off - boosted by heavy injections of American and Israeli expertise. The Bush administration has approved cooperation arrangements between Israeli and Italian military, aircraft and electronic industries in the manufacture of weapons systems for electronic warfare and surveillance based ...
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August 23, 2004, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
With Labor staging its own revolt against the drive initiated by its chairman, Shimon Peres, to join the government, no cabinet or Knesset majority and a party divided against him, Sharon finds his disengagement plan blocked at every hand. He is therefore dodging between two urgent needs: to placate his ...
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May 4, 2004, 3:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said three contradictory things in his remarks on the defeat of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan by a Likud party majority on Sunday, May 2. He acknowledged that Sharon had suffered a setback, allowed the plan could still go forward and added: ...
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April 28, 2004, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Just four days before Likud party members vote on Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan, President George W. Bush looks like backtracking on some of the key words contained in his statement and letter that so elated the Israeli prime minister after their talks in Washington on April 14. He is ...
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April 17, 2004, 8:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's political analysts, the US and British leaders suddenly developed their enthusiasm for the Sharon plan when they saw it is mostly about withdrawal, not really unilateral and contains only a marginal disengagement quotient. It looked very much like an opportunity to transpose a version of ...
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April 14, 2004, 11:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
George W. Bush is the first US president to refer to the 1949 Armistice Lines in a formal statement on the Middle East conflict. This was the most striking and portentous US policy change to emerge from his joint news conference with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon after their White ...
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April 13, 2004, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president George W. Bush's appointment book for the remainder of April reflects a Middle East without Iraq. Two days after seeing Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Crawford on Monday, April 12, he meets Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in Washington and Abdullah King of Jordan on Friday, April 21. ...
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March 19, 2004, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
No secret agent ever admits freely to being spy, certainly not someone like internationally known political cartoonist ex-Israeli Ranan Lurie, who today resides in New York. So it was not surprising that in his exclusive interview with debkafile, the artist, whose finely detailed caricatures of world leaders are ...
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March 16, 2004, 12:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
In just a few weeks, X will step out from the extraordinary cover under which he lived and operated in secret for half a century as a spy for the Israeli Mossad and US Central Intelligence Agency. He does not promise to tell quite all, but what he has to ...
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February 28, 2004, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, March 1, several hives of activity will focus on the Middle East's most intractable conflict and the next stage of the Bush design to remake the region. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's two senior aides, Dov Weisglass and his new national security council director Giora Eiland, will be in ...
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February 16, 2004, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Washington-Jerusalem track has generated a sudden spurt of activity after several sluggish months. Three administration officials are heading for Jerusalem to examine the details of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral evacuation plans, indicating that cold US disapproval has made way for a spark of interest. Stephen Hadley, ...
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February 4, 2004, 4:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
For some months now, laughter courses - an idea copied from India's "mirth is medicine" Laughing Clubs - have been the rage in Israel's main cities. In the dumps after three and-a-half years of Palestinian violence and severe economic disruption, Israelis are trying to relieve tension by a jolly good ...
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October 21, 2003, 3:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
In Damascus, Syrian president Bashar Assad picked up the gauntlets thrown down by the US - congressional legislation for sanctions against his country - and by Israel, whose government spokesman warned that the October 5 air strike near Damascus would not be the last if the Syrians continued to dabble ...
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September 12, 2003, 6:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon came marching into an urgent cabinet meeting called on Thursday, September 11, over the latest terrorist crisis and Palestinian threats of escalation, determined not to give into ministers' and popular demands to deport Yasser Arafat. debkafile's political sources report he pulled a piece ...
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August 11, 2003, 3:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/SHALOMI.jpg" align="left" border="0">Most Israelis waited with bated breath Sunday night, August 10, for a formidable Israeli response to the fourth Hizballah cross-border bombardment in three days - the first to take a life since the IDF quit southern Lebanon to agreed lines three years ago. The hotels and ...
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August 6, 2003, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/NASSR.jpg" align="left" border="0">The Lebanese Shiite terror group has launched an extensive, particularly vicious, terror campaign against Israel in collusion with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. At present, an Israeli Arab terror gang in Galilee, controlled and funded by Hizballah, is believed by Israeli security officials talking to debka
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July 30, 2003, 11:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/Swall.jpg" align="right" border="0"> Both Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon did their best to put a good face on their carefully choreographed visits to the White House on July 25 and July 29, respectively. debkafile's Washington sources have confirmed that both came away disappointed. While both received ...
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June 3, 2003, 3:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Someone at Israel's Shin Beit secret service decided that 2 am Tuesday was just the time to ask Tel Aviv district court to declassify a stream of data from the investigation into the terrorist bombing that took place at Mike's Place Tel Aviv pub on April 30 leaving 3 Israelis ...
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May 25, 2003, 2:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
What has led Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to fit unreservedly into America's geo-strategic box for the postwar Middle East? What has President George W. Bush promised him for saying yes to the Middle East road map, a document that no one except its authors believes in? What role is ...
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May 1, 2003, 1:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The long-awaited road map charted by the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union was presented without fanfare to the Israeli and Palestinian governments on Wednesday, April 30, only 16 hours after a suicide bomber killed three people and injured 60 at Mike's Place, a seafront Blues ...
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